On one of the Shetland islands, Papa Little, there was once the belief that mice and rats could not live on ‘this once holy island’ (Manson 1933), and the people from around it used to take earth from it and put the earth under their haystacks, ‘which thereafter remained free of mice.’
Site Name |
Species |
Grid-Reference / What3Words |
| Butter Well | Healing Well | |
| Livister, Whalsay | Standing Stone (destroyed) | HU 5577 6237 |
| Papil, Yell | Standing Stone (destroyed) | HP 5378 0425 |
| Wartie Stone, Yell | Legendary Stone (destroyed) | HP 5223 0467 |